Alexander Rodchenko

Portfolio with 28 silver prints, each flush-mounted to card. Each print numbered in black ink from 1 to 28 'Plate' and 14 'in an edition of thirty plus 5 hors commerce' on a portfolio printed label affixed to the card. With a title page, the facsimile signature stamp on the last page and in the original clamshell case. Edited by Rodchenko/Stepanova Archives, Moscow and published by Howard Schickler Fine Art, New York. 

Phillips London, Photographs, 19 May 2011, lot 112

Magdalena Dabrowski, Leah Dickerman, Peter Galassi, Aleksandr Rodchenko, exh. cat. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1998, with illustrations.

This portfolio is in very good to excellent condition. The cover and the back cover of the case, each with two light scratches. Plates 2, 16 and 28 are slightly worn on the right edge near the lower corner.
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List of Plates :
  1. The Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1924
  2. Lily Brik, 1924
  3. The Painter Alexander Shevchenko, 1924
  4. Artist and Architect Alexander Vesnin, 1924
  5. Artist, Producer, and Publisher Alexei Ganm 1924
  6. Artist and Designer Liubov Popova, 1924
  7. The Critic Osip Brik, 1924
  8. Actor and Producer Vitaly Zhemchuzhny, 1924
  9. Yevgenia Zhemchuzhnaya, 1924
10. The Sculptor Anton Lavinsky, 1924
11. The Writer Elsa Triolet (Sister of Lily Brik), 1924
12. Documentary Film-Maker Esther Schub, 1924
13. The worker's Faculty Student, 1924
14. Varvara Stepanova, 1925
15. In the Workshop of Rodchenko and Stepanova, 1925
16. The Film-Maker Lev Kuleshov, 1927
17. The Poet Nikolai Aseev, 1927
18. Vkhutemas Student Ivan Morozov, 1927
19. Varvara Stepanova, 1928
20. The Artist's Mother at the Table, 1928
21. Poet and Writer, Sergei Tretyakov, 1928
22. Driver, 1929
23. Pioneer Girl, 1930
24. Actress Julia Solntseva, Producer Alexander Dovzhenko, And Poet-Futurist Alexei Kruchenykh, 1930
25. Professor Boris Schvetsov, 1930
26. Photo-reporter Vadim Kovrigin at the Moscow-Volga Canal, 1934
27. Photojournalist Georgy Petrusov, 1934
28. Field Flowers, 1937